Russia's embassy in Washington has said Moscow will not be swayed by U.S. threats of sanctions over the Ukraine crisis. The mission said on Facebook that "the generator of tension is not Moscow but Washington" and that "we are not going to back away and stand at attention, heeding the threat of U.S. sanctions." (https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-joe-biden-sanctions-embassy-1674926) Monday's statement followed a rancorous exchange between the countries at the United Nations as the prospect of diplomacy easing fears of a Moscow-led invasion of Ukraine seemed further away than ever. Tass said the embassy was irked by a U.S. State Department tweet on Monday, which described as a "fact" the statement that Russia had "invaded Ukraine in 2014 and occupied Crimea" and "massed more than 100,000 troops at the border." But the Russian embassy reiterated the Kremlin's position that the events of 2014 followed a "coup" in Kyiv, and that people in Crimea had "voted for reunification with Russia," although the referendum it referred to was criticized globally as illegitimate.